Hey All;
First things; if this is in the wrong thread please move it (sorry), also excuse my English (non native speaker) and lastly Thanks for the amazing forum and work you do guys , ASUS is lucky to have this forum (since their support is rubbish even for MOBs wish they could learn from GIGABYTE a thing or two).
Now a little background on my setup and issue:
I have and RT-AC5300 bought from Switzerland and running FW 3.0.0.4.380_1355
and I have RP- AC68U bought from the USA and running FW 3.0.0.4.378_348 and its connected wirelessly to the router above through the button on the back (WPS).The distance between them is 8 meters (27ft) in length not sqr. my house walls are from building blocks made from cement and some reinforced walls (specially corners) with steal beams , the router is placed in my living room cause my fiber modem is there and the repeater is in my room across the hallway.
My issue is that I don't get good signal from the router to the repeater and even from the router to my devices in my room the signal is week , and the connection drops between the router and repeater every once in while.
If you notice, I run an old FW, and that is because Asus blocked the options to change the Tx? power in later FWs (thanks America) and I don't want to update until I make sure that its not a power out put issue. in that regard I should point out that I live in a country in the M.E. and I checked with my local authorities regarding out put power and they didn't have any concerns as along as its a commercial product not some military equipment and more so in the area I live in, so we got that out of the way.
How can I solve this issue , is it power related ?? or is it (my assumption) a problem due to the different regions of the routers (I tired once a code on puty which shows the region and had the router to EU and repeater to US) could this what cause the signal to drop (maybe different channels?).
I don't have Ethernet cables between the rooms, should I just dump the router and go for erro mesh ?
or is there a better router to replace the existing one?
I apologize for the long post but this issue has been bugging me for the last year, so please help solve it
Cheers
Ferris
First things; if this is in the wrong thread please move it (sorry), also excuse my English (non native speaker) and lastly Thanks for the amazing forum and work you do guys , ASUS is lucky to have this forum (since their support is rubbish even for MOBs wish they could learn from GIGABYTE a thing or two).
Now a little background on my setup and issue:
I have and RT-AC5300 bought from Switzerland and running FW 3.0.0.4.380_1355
and I have RP- AC68U bought from the USA and running FW 3.0.0.4.378_348 and its connected wirelessly to the router above through the button on the back (WPS).The distance between them is 8 meters (27ft) in length not sqr. my house walls are from building blocks made from cement and some reinforced walls (specially corners) with steal beams , the router is placed in my living room cause my fiber modem is there and the repeater is in my room across the hallway.
My issue is that I don't get good signal from the router to the repeater and even from the router to my devices in my room the signal is week , and the connection drops between the router and repeater every once in while.
If you notice, I run an old FW, and that is because Asus blocked the options to change the Tx? power in later FWs (thanks America) and I don't want to update until I make sure that its not a power out put issue. in that regard I should point out that I live in a country in the M.E. and I checked with my local authorities regarding out put power and they didn't have any concerns as along as its a commercial product not some military equipment and more so in the area I live in, so we got that out of the way.
How can I solve this issue , is it power related ?? or is it (my assumption) a problem due to the different regions of the routers (I tired once a code on puty which shows the region and had the router to EU and repeater to US) could this what cause the signal to drop (maybe different channels?).
I don't have Ethernet cables between the rooms, should I just dump the router and go for erro mesh ?
or is there a better router to replace the existing one?
I apologize for the long post but this issue has been bugging me for the last year, so please help solve it
Cheers
Ferris